Until We Meet Again.
“Aaron,” my grandfather stopped me as I walked out the door. The seriousness of his tone and the look on his face caught me off guard. Grandpa was a man of few words, his faithful presence spoke...
View ArticleI Was Fired for Not Being a Christian
“You’re fired.” Those are two words no one ever really wants to hear. However, when you’re fired (or politely, “let go”) for not being a Christian…and you’re a pastor…it brings things to a whole...
View Article“Jesus was a Zombie.”
“…Jesus was a zombie.” Do you ever wonder how conversations end up where they do? How they wind around, weaving and twirling until someone says, “But you know, Jesus was a zombie”? That’s where my...
View ArticleSixteen Years of Wedded… Something?
Bliss. The answer should be bliss. Sixteen years of wedded bliss. At least that’s what we’re conditioned and told to say. Today marks sixteen years of marriage and as I sit back to reflect I wonder if...
View ArticleA Litany of Confession and Witness: Believe Women
There is a perpetually present heaviness in the air that many are beginning to wake up to and notice. It’s a heaviness filled with a conglomeration of pain and trauma and shame, loneliness and...
View ArticleThe Invisible Pastor: Reflecting on Twenty Years of Ministry
“Our stories are all stories of searching. We search for a good self to be and for good work to do. We search to become human in a world that tempts us always to be less than human or looks to us to be...
View ArticleThe Prayer I’m Praying for President Trump.
“To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.” + Karl Barth I’ll admit it, praying for President Trump is really hard. I’ve prayed through a litany of...
View ArticleI’m the Devil.
You could smell the fumes of alcohol and bad breath mixing together in a musty cloud every time she opened her mouth to talk. If she wasn’t completely drunk, she had to have been crazy. I sat there...
View ArticleMass Shootings: A Communal Prayer of Lament
This morning our church paused to pray for the victims and communities marred by the mass shootings this past weekend. While we were praying one of the kids in our community lit 33 candles to...
View ArticleLetters from the CHAZ / CHOP
Photo: Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times “What are you doing here?!” His muffled scream rushed through his mask. His face was already red with rage, the veins around his temples beginning to bulge, a...
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